Oh, Prayer is MOVEMENT: A Commentary on Neville Goddard's "The Secret of Prayer"
9-26-2017 edit: Neville's lecture The Creator explains movement: http://realneville.com/txt/the_creator.htm
11-17-2016 edit: see my post: http://imagicworldview.blogspot.com/2016/11/ooooohhhhh-way-to-pray-is-to-represent.html
Some young man has posted an audio of Neville Goddard's "The Secret of Prayer" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9AAcgdhYsQ). Reading the lecture again (at http://realneville.com/txt/the_secret_of_prayer.htm), I finally caught on to what Neville was saying, which is that prayer is psychological movement created in the imagination to where you want to be. You revise your reality and go to the new one. You seem to be here in this sinful (unlike God) reality, but this existence is really imaginal.** So, psychologically, you move your imagined awareness to the noble, God-like state you want to be in. Here you are in need; there you are in solution. "Prayer" is your present awareness of all the senses of actually being where you have moved to in your imagination. Prayer is positional awareness. Be aware of being there.
Do you move yourself to being in the solution when you pray, or is it remote and distant? Biblical prayer is moving there.*
In his book Prayer: the Art of Believing, chapter one (http://www.prayertheartofbelieving.com/), Neville explains the Law of Reversibility which unifies the universe, which is that all transformations of force are reversible:
"Mechanical motion caused by speech was known for a long time before anyone dreamed of the possibility of an inverse transformation, that is, the reproduction of speech by mechanical motion (the phonograph). For a long time electricity was produced by friction without ever a thought that friction, in turn, could be produced by electricity. Whether or not man succeeds in reversing the transformation of a force, he knows, nevertheless, that all transformations of force are reversible. If heat can produce mechanical motion, so mechanical motion can produce heat. If electricity produces magnetism, magnetism too can develop electric currents. If the voice can cause undulatory currents, so can such currents reproduce the voice, and so on. Cause and effect, energy and matter, action and reaction are the same and inter-convertible.
"This law is of the highest importance, because it enables you to foresee the inverse transformation once the direct transformation is verified. If you knew how you would feel were you to realize your objective, then, inversely, you would know what state you could realize were you to awaken in yourself such feeling. The injunction, to pray believing that you already possess what you pray for, is based upon a knowledge of the law of inverse transformation. If your realized prayer produces in you a definite feeling or state of consciousness, then, inversely, that particular feeling or state of consciousness must produce your realized (i.e, fulfilled) prayer. Because all transformations of force are reversible, you should always assume the feeling of your fulfilled wish" (emphasis and parenthesis mine).
So, just as something happens and you become aware of it, inversely, you become aware of "it" -- your being in the state you desire -- and then that something happens. This is the depth of the "rocket science" the universe is hinged upon and operates by: God is becoming us; we are becoming Him.*
"They were people," my friend protested when I told him about the symbolic nature of the Bible and how all the characters are actually states we each go through. It does not matter that the biblical characters were people. The stories are not about them as people, but as psychological states. Laban's goats and sheep were sacrificial animals that followed one after another; i.e., thoughts. 'Jacob' is the subtle, inner man within us. He sees spotted and produces spotted. He sees striped and produces striped. What you move your genuine, inner awareness to is what you get. (When it works and you get what you were aware of, you have found God -- your own wonderful, human imagination! When you can turn control over to him, you become 'Israel': literally God-ruling-as-man in Hebrew.)
In The Secret of Prayer, Neville explains an exercise Abdullah gave to practice movement by:
"My old friend, Abdullah, gave me this exercise: every day I would sit in my living room where I could not see the telephone in the hall. With my eyes closed, I would assume I was in the chair by the phone. Then I would feel myself back in the living room. This I did over and over again, as I discovered the feeling of changing motion. This exercise was very helpful to me. If you try it, you will discover you become very loose with this exercise."
Practice, practice, practice. Abdullah famously (to fans of Neville, anyway) told Neville, when he desired one October to go to Barbados, that he was already in Barbados -- while Neville was most certainly was in New York City! Abdullah told Neville to imagine, nevertheless, that he was in Barbados having sailed there first class, and to go to sleep imagining that he was in his bed in his mother's house on Barbados. This Neville did, and while penniless in New York, he spent Christmas in Barbados having sailed there first class!
Neville also regularly practiced revising his day. What events did not go as desired during the day, before he went to sleep each night he revised in his imagination to their having gone as desired. The expected check did not arrive in the mail? He rejoiced in having received it, giving thanks and gratitude. He moved to the having of the results he desired, and fell asleep in that state.
It seems to me that churches and synagogues should certainly be able to teach this process of prayer to their congregations. When we pray, we are supposed to believe that we have what we desire (Mark 11: 24). This is called 'faith,' to psychologically move to the state of the desire fulfilled. Move to the having! Hold in persistent assumption -- faith that you do have -- and you will have.
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For your convenience, Neville's "The Secret of Prayer" (parentheses and emphases mine):
The word "prayer" means "motion towards, accession to, at or in the vicinity of". Orienting myself (mentally) towards New York City, I have made a motion, an accession to. As I act in the vicinity of (New York City in my imagination), I see my friends relative to (me in) New York City. Having done this, let me have full confidence in my imagination, knowing he (God, my imagination) is the being who made the motion. Blake's words are true: "Man is all Imagination, and God is Man and exists in us, and we in Him. Man's Immortal Body is the Imagination, and that (our Imagination[s]) is God Himself!"
You can not only move in space but also in time and fulfill your every desire (see page 19, The Law and the Promise http://www.law-of-attraction-haven.com/support-files/the-law-and-the-promise-neville-goddard.pdf). Prayer does not have to be confined to what a person calls self. You can pray for another by feeling they now have what they formerly wanted, for feeling is a movement. The first creative act recorded in scripture is motion: "God moved upon the face of the water."
A friend recently had a fantastic vision, during which he asked: "Did I learn anything?" and I answered: "Yes. You learned how to move." Then everything was transformed, as conflict deceased, a hovel became a castle, the battlefield a sea of ripened wheat, and he was escorted into his eternal home. Prayer is motion (your motion in imagination to the state of awareness of having whatsoever you desire). It is learning how to move toward a change in your bank balance, your marital status, or social world. Learn to master the art of motion; for after you move, change begins to rise up out of the deep. The technique of prayer is mastering (being master of) your inner motion. If you are seeing things you would like to change, move in your imagination to the position you would occupy after (!) the change took place.
Everything and everyone in your world is yourself pushed out. (Read that sentence several times, and consider.) Any request from another - heard by you - should not be ignored; for it is coming from yourself! You came down from a world of light to confine yourself to this body of darkness. Now a spark from an infinite world of light, one day you will remember that world and awaken, but in the meantime you must learn to exercise the power of your mind. Having remembered the infinite world of light, I now know that everything is myself, as all things are contained within me. (When you have time, visit Gregg Braden's "Seven Essene Mirrors," https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiBsczafvaA and several other sites. Ignore his 1980's hair.)
Prayer is psychological movement. It is the art of (psychologically) moving from a problem to its solution. When a (lady) friend calls telling of a problem, we hang up, and I move (in imagination) from the problem state to (the state of) its solution by hearing the same lady tell me the problem is now solved.
A friend recently shared this dream with me: We were in a garden and he told me all of his desires, when I said: "Don't desire them, live them!" This is true. Desire is thinking of. Living is thinking from! Don't go through life desiring. Live your desire. Think it is already fulfilled. Believe it is true; for an assumption, though false, if persisted in will harden into fact.
When you are learning the art of prayer, persistence is necessary, as told us in the story of the man who, coming at night, said: "Friend, lend me three loaves of bread." Although his friend replied: "It is late, the door is closed, my children are in bed, and I cannot come down and serve you," because of the man's importunity, his friend gave him what he wanted. The word importunity means brazen impudence. The man repeated and repeated his request, unwilling to take no for an answer. The same is true in the story of the widow. These are all parables told to illustrate prayer. (Practice once, and practice twice, and practice once again, even if it takes a long, long time.)
The Lord's Prayer teaches the oneness of us all. It begins: "Our Father." If God is our Father, are we not one? Regardless of our race or color of skin, if we have a common Father, we must have a common brotherhood. (We are, actually, the same Imagination.)
Eventually we are all going to know we are the Father; but in the meanwhile, persistence (in psychological movement) is the key to a change in life - more income, greater recognition, or whatever the desire may be. If your desire is not fulfilled today, tomorrow, next week or next month - persist, for persistence will pay off. All of your prayers will be answered if you will not give up.
My old friend, Abdullah, gave me this exercise: every day I would sit in my living room where I could not see the telephone in the hall. With my eyes closed, I would assume I was in the chair by the phone. Then I would feel myself back in the living room. This I did over and over again, as I discovered the feeling of changing motion. This exercise was very helpful to me. If you try it, you will discover you become very loose with this exercise.
Practice the art of motion (that is, practice the art of moving), and one day you will discover that by the very act of imagining, you are detached from your physical body and placed exactly where you are imagining yourself to be - so much so that you are seen by those who are there.
Being all imagination, you must be wherever you are in imagination. Moving in your imagination, you are preparing a place for your desires to be fulfilled. Then you return, to walk through a series of events which will lead you up to where you have placed yourself. In imagination, I can put myself where I desire to be. I move and view the world from there. Then I return here, confident that, in a way unknown to me, this being (God, the imagination) who can do all things and knows all things, will lead me physically across a bridge of incident up to where I have placed myself. You can move in imagination to any place and any time. Dwell there (where you are going to) as though it were true, and you will have learned the secret of prayer.
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Take my message to heart and live by it. Practice the art of prayer daily, and then one day you will find the most effective prayer is: "Thank you Father." You will feel this being within you as your very self. You can speak of it as "thou" yet know it is "I." You will then have a thou/I relationship, and say to yourself (!): "Thank you, Father". If I want something, I know the desire comes from the Father, because all thought springs from Him. Having given me the urge, I thank Him for fulfilling it. Then I walk by faith, in confidence that he who gave it to me through the medium of desire will clothe it in bodily form for me to encounter in the flesh.
---Don't get in the habit of judging and criticizing, seeing only unlovely things(!)---. You have a life - live it nobly. It is so much easier to be noble, generous, loving, and kind, than to be judgmental. If others want to do so, let them. They are an aspect of yourself that you haven't overcome yet, but don't fall into that habit. Simply thank your heavenly Father over and over and over again, because in the end, when the curtain comes down on this wonderful drama, the Supreme Actor will rise from it all and you will know that you are He*
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*There are three single asterisks on this page:
1) Biblical prayer is moving there.*
2) This is the depth of the "rocket science" the universe is hinged upon and operates by: God became us, we become Him.*
3)Simply thank your heavenly Father over and over and over again, because in the end, when the curtain comes down on this wonderful drama, the Supreme Actor will rise from it all and you will know that you are He*
All these together, I believe, are what "Ahiyeh Ashur Hiyeh" actually means in Exodus 3: 14 (according to the original text in the ancient Aramaic -- please see lead paragraph, http://v-a.com/bible/, and note on Exodus 3: 14, http://www.v-a.com/bible/supporters/exodus_1-4.html, provided for your convenience below). You would never get the correct understanding from the water-down Masoretic Text, which never said "I AM THAT I AM" in the original. Because the original did not agree with the priests' theology -- they could neither understand nor do it, let alone teach it -- they changed it! The original is so rich in meaning that Alexander could not translate it into English. Ahiyeh means "Me, really Me, am really coming." 'Coming,' though, is not from one place to another, but from degree to degree, like amping up the wattage on a volume pot (switch). Ashur is the Creator God of Nineveh, from which the Aramaic language comes. It took me awhile, but I have finally resolved that Ashur is Imagination, by which God has created everything (when he "says," he imagines!). Hiyeh means His Becoming. When we -- God's Imagination -- imagine, His greater will comes forth as His becoming. 'His becoming' is also the meaning of the Hebrew Tetragrammaton: YHWH. No, it does NOT mean I AM. But when we pray imagining, and it works, we have found Him in His becoming! His becoming = our imagination, and you can bet that he speaks to us there!
**http://imagicworldview.blogspot.com/2015/12/imaginal-is-not-imaginary-it-is-medium.html.
One attempted to correct me for using the term 'imaginal' where the word 'imaginary' would do. 'Imaginary' would not do, because it means something totally different. 'Imaginary' means not real; imagined with no corollary in fact. 'Imaginal' is, in reality, the medium of fact. That which is imagined by God's intelligence has the power to become (what we call particulate): His intelligence believes that it is what ever it thinks that it is, and it becomes what it thinks. This is, I believe, Adam (the intelligence of God) having the rib (the creative power of God) to Eve (give birth to living existence) Cain (acquisition) and Abel (transitoriness). Our reality of "fact" is, in fact, imaginal; it is NOT imaginary.
Exodus (Liberation) chapter 3, from Victor Alexander's translation from the ancient Aramaic:
1. And Moses shepherded the herds of Jethro,* his king priest and he fetched him sheep for the altar, and he came to the mountain of God at Khooriv.
2. And there appeared to him the angel of the Lord through the waves of fire from inside the sun disc, and he saw that the sun disc itself did not burn up.
3. And Moses said, "Let me see, this must be indeed a great vision, that is why the disc is not burning up."
4. And the Lord saw that he was approaching to look closer, and so God called him from inside the disc, and He said, "Moses," and [Moses] said, "Behold, it is I."
5. And He said to him, "Do not come near, take off your sandals, because the land that you stand on is holy ground."
6. And He said, "I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob." And Moses hid himself from the faces* that he saw, because he was afraid to look at God.
7. And the Lord said, "I have indeed seen* the slavery of my people in Egypt, and I have heard the agonies of their enslavement, because I know what ails them.
8. "And I have come down to deliver them from the hand of the Egyptians and to take them up from this land to an expansive and good land, to a land that flows with milk and honey, to the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites.
9. "And now, behold, the agony of the Children of Israel has reached me* and I can also see the persecution by which the Egyptians oppress them.
10. "Now come, I will send you to the Pharaoh, and take my people, the Children of Israel, out of Egypt."
11. And Moses said to God, "Who am I to go to the Pharaoh and bring out the Children of Israel out of Egypt?"
12. And God said to him, "I will be with you and this is the sign that I am sending you, when you conduct the exodus of the nation from Egypt, you shall work here before God on this mountain."
13. And Moses said to God, "Behold, as I go to the Children of Israel and say to them, 'the Lord God of your ancestors has sent me over to you," and they tell me, 'what is His name?' what shall I say to them?"
14. And God said to Moses, "Ahiyeh-Ashur-hiyeh,"* and He said, "this is what you will say to the Children of Israel, "Ahiyeh has sent me over to you."
15. And again God said to Moses, "This is what you shall tell the Children of Israel, that the Lord God of your ancestors, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, the God of Jacob, sent me over to you -- this is His name to the end of the universe and this is how you shall commemorate me from this century to the end of all the centuries,
16. "Go and gather all the elders of the Children of Israel and say to them that the Lord God of your ancestors has revealed this to me, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, so as to say this to you, that you shall memorialize this memorial, of all that He has done for you in Egypt.
17. "And you shall tell them that He brought you out of the enslavement of the Egyptians to the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites, to the land that flows with milk and honey.
18. "And I shall make them heed your voice, and you and the elders of the House of Israel shall enter into the presence of the king of Egypt and you shall say to him, 'The Lord God of the Hebrews has revealed this to us now that we must go and spend three days in the wilderness and make a sacrifice to our Lord God.'
19. "And I know the king of Egypt will not allow you to go, and it is not in his power to do so.*
20. "And I shall extend my hand and strike the Egyptians and I shall perform wonders among them and then I shall send you [all out.]
21. "And I shall give the nation to be perceived kindly in the eyes of the Egyptians, so that when you go, you do not go empty-handed.*
22. "The wife shall ask her neighbor, and the residents of her house for gold plates and silver plates and clothing, so that you may cloth your sons and your daughters, and the Egyptians shall allow it."
*3:6 Lit. Ar. idiom retained: "Visions" or manifestations.
*3:7 Lit. Ar. idiomatic figure of speech: "Seeingly have seen."
*3:9 Lit. Ar. id.: "Entered upon me."
*3:14 Lit. Aramaic: (1) "Ahiyeh": "the One Who Comes in His Coming," the absolute sense of "the One Who Comes." (2) "Ashur": "the Beginning Spark that kindles the Fire" or "the Light." (3) "Hiyeh": "His Coming." (4) "Ahiyeh" and "hiyeh" are related forms of the same word. They mean more than "the Coming." They signify also the "Eternal Presence," "the Ever-Present," and the "Never Ceasing Intent of the Comer to Come." (5) In the same way, "Ashur" signifies "the Uncreated Creator who Creates Everything from Nothing." (6) Also, "Ashur" signifies: "Above-the-Flames."
*3:19 Lit. Ar. idiomatic expression: "It was not in his clutching hand."
*3:21 Lit. Ar. id.: "Bare."
11-17-2016 edit: see my post: http://imagicworldview.blogspot.com/2016/11/ooooohhhhh-way-to-pray-is-to-represent.html
Some young man has posted an audio of Neville Goddard's "The Secret of Prayer" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9AAcgdhYsQ). Reading the lecture again (at http://realneville.com/txt/the_secret_of_prayer.htm), I finally caught on to what Neville was saying, which is that prayer is psychological movement created in the imagination to where you want to be. You revise your reality and go to the new one. You seem to be here in this sinful (unlike God) reality, but this existence is really imaginal.** So, psychologically, you move your imagined awareness to the noble, God-like state you want to be in. Here you are in need; there you are in solution. "Prayer" is your present awareness of all the senses of actually being where you have moved to in your imagination. Prayer is positional awareness. Be aware of being there.
Do you move yourself to being in the solution when you pray, or is it remote and distant? Biblical prayer is moving there.*
In his book Prayer: the Art of Believing, chapter one (http://www.prayertheartofbelieving.com/), Neville explains the Law of Reversibility which unifies the universe, which is that all transformations of force are reversible:
"Mechanical motion caused by speech was known for a long time before anyone dreamed of the possibility of an inverse transformation, that is, the reproduction of speech by mechanical motion (the phonograph). For a long time electricity was produced by friction without ever a thought that friction, in turn, could be produced by electricity. Whether or not man succeeds in reversing the transformation of a force, he knows, nevertheless, that all transformations of force are reversible. If heat can produce mechanical motion, so mechanical motion can produce heat. If electricity produces magnetism, magnetism too can develop electric currents. If the voice can cause undulatory currents, so can such currents reproduce the voice, and so on. Cause and effect, energy and matter, action and reaction are the same and inter-convertible.
"This law is of the highest importance, because it enables you to foresee the inverse transformation once the direct transformation is verified. If you knew how you would feel were you to realize your objective, then, inversely, you would know what state you could realize were you to awaken in yourself such feeling. The injunction, to pray believing that you already possess what you pray for, is based upon a knowledge of the law of inverse transformation. If your realized prayer produces in you a definite feeling or state of consciousness, then, inversely, that particular feeling or state of consciousness must produce your realized (i.e, fulfilled) prayer. Because all transformations of force are reversible, you should always assume the feeling of your fulfilled wish" (emphasis and parenthesis mine).
So, just as something happens and you become aware of it, inversely, you become aware of "it" -- your being in the state you desire -- and then that something happens. This is the depth of the "rocket science" the universe is hinged upon and operates by: God is becoming us; we are becoming Him.*
"They were people," my friend protested when I told him about the symbolic nature of the Bible and how all the characters are actually states we each go through. It does not matter that the biblical characters were people. The stories are not about them as people, but as psychological states. Laban's goats and sheep were sacrificial animals that followed one after another; i.e., thoughts. 'Jacob' is the subtle, inner man within us. He sees spotted and produces spotted. He sees striped and produces striped. What you move your genuine, inner awareness to is what you get. (When it works and you get what you were aware of, you have found God -- your own wonderful, human imagination! When you can turn control over to him, you become 'Israel': literally God-ruling-as-man in Hebrew.)
In The Secret of Prayer, Neville explains an exercise Abdullah gave to practice movement by:
"My old friend, Abdullah, gave me this exercise: every day I would sit in my living room where I could not see the telephone in the hall. With my eyes closed, I would assume I was in the chair by the phone. Then I would feel myself back in the living room. This I did over and over again, as I discovered the feeling of changing motion. This exercise was very helpful to me. If you try it, you will discover you become very loose with this exercise."
Practice, practice, practice. Abdullah famously (to fans of Neville, anyway) told Neville, when he desired one October to go to Barbados, that he was already in Barbados -- while Neville was most certainly was in New York City! Abdullah told Neville to imagine, nevertheless, that he was in Barbados having sailed there first class, and to go to sleep imagining that he was in his bed in his mother's house on Barbados. This Neville did, and while penniless in New York, he spent Christmas in Barbados having sailed there first class!
Neville also regularly practiced revising his day. What events did not go as desired during the day, before he went to sleep each night he revised in his imagination to their having gone as desired. The expected check did not arrive in the mail? He rejoiced in having received it, giving thanks and gratitude. He moved to the having of the results he desired, and fell asleep in that state.
It seems to me that churches and synagogues should certainly be able to teach this process of prayer to their congregations. When we pray, we are supposed to believe that we have what we desire (Mark 11: 24). This is called 'faith,' to psychologically move to the state of the desire fulfilled. Move to the having! Hold in persistent assumption -- faith that you do have -- and you will have.
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For your convenience, Neville's "The Secret of Prayer" (parentheses and emphases mine):
The word "prayer" means "motion towards, accession to, at or in the vicinity of". Orienting myself (mentally) towards New York City, I have made a motion, an accession to. As I act in the vicinity of (New York City in my imagination), I see my friends relative to (me in) New York City. Having done this, let me have full confidence in my imagination, knowing he (God, my imagination) is the being who made the motion. Blake's words are true: "Man is all Imagination, and God is Man and exists in us, and we in Him. Man's Immortal Body is the Imagination, and that (our Imagination[s]) is God Himself!"
You can not only move in space but also in time and fulfill your every desire (see page 19, The Law and the Promise http://www.law-of-attraction-haven.com/support-files/the-law-and-the-promise-neville-goddard.pdf). Prayer does not have to be confined to what a person calls self. You can pray for another by feeling they now have what they formerly wanted, for feeling is a movement. The first creative act recorded in scripture is motion: "God moved upon the face of the water."
A friend recently had a fantastic vision, during which he asked: "Did I learn anything?" and I answered: "Yes. You learned how to move." Then everything was transformed, as conflict deceased, a hovel became a castle, the battlefield a sea of ripened wheat, and he was escorted into his eternal home. Prayer is motion (your motion in imagination to the state of awareness of having whatsoever you desire). It is learning how to move toward a change in your bank balance, your marital status, or social world. Learn to master the art of motion; for after you move, change begins to rise up out of the deep. The technique of prayer is mastering (being master of) your inner motion. If you are seeing things you would like to change, move in your imagination to the position you would occupy after (!) the change took place.
Everything and everyone in your world is yourself pushed out. (Read that sentence several times, and consider.) Any request from another - heard by you - should not be ignored; for it is coming from yourself! You came down from a world of light to confine yourself to this body of darkness. Now a spark from an infinite world of light, one day you will remember that world and awaken, but in the meantime you must learn to exercise the power of your mind. Having remembered the infinite world of light, I now know that everything is myself, as all things are contained within me. (When you have time, visit Gregg Braden's "Seven Essene Mirrors," https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiBsczafvaA and several other sites. Ignore his 1980's hair.)
Prayer is psychological movement. It is the art of (psychologically) moving from a problem to its solution. When a (lady) friend calls telling of a problem, we hang up, and I move (in imagination) from the problem state to (the state of) its solution by hearing the same lady tell me the problem is now solved.
A friend recently shared this dream with me: We were in a garden and he told me all of his desires, when I said: "Don't desire them, live them!" This is true. Desire is thinking of. Living is thinking from! Don't go through life desiring. Live your desire. Think it is already fulfilled. Believe it is true; for an assumption, though false, if persisted in will harden into fact.
When you are learning the art of prayer, persistence is necessary, as told us in the story of the man who, coming at night, said: "Friend, lend me three loaves of bread." Although his friend replied: "It is late, the door is closed, my children are in bed, and I cannot come down and serve you," because of the man's importunity, his friend gave him what he wanted. The word importunity means brazen impudence. The man repeated and repeated his request, unwilling to take no for an answer. The same is true in the story of the widow. These are all parables told to illustrate prayer. (Practice once, and practice twice, and practice once again, even if it takes a long, long time.)
The Lord's Prayer teaches the oneness of us all. It begins: "Our Father." If God is our Father, are we not one? Regardless of our race or color of skin, if we have a common Father, we must have a common brotherhood. (We are, actually, the same Imagination.)
Eventually we are all going to know we are the Father; but in the meanwhile, persistence (in psychological movement) is the key to a change in life - more income, greater recognition, or whatever the desire may be. If your desire is not fulfilled today, tomorrow, next week or next month - persist, for persistence will pay off. All of your prayers will be answered if you will not give up.
My old friend, Abdullah, gave me this exercise: every day I would sit in my living room where I could not see the telephone in the hall. With my eyes closed, I would assume I was in the chair by the phone. Then I would feel myself back in the living room. This I did over and over again, as I discovered the feeling of changing motion. This exercise was very helpful to me. If you try it, you will discover you become very loose with this exercise.
Practice the art of motion (that is, practice the art of moving), and one day you will discover that by the very act of imagining, you are detached from your physical body and placed exactly where you are imagining yourself to be - so much so that you are seen by those who are there.
Being all imagination, you must be wherever you are in imagination. Moving in your imagination, you are preparing a place for your desires to be fulfilled. Then you return, to walk through a series of events which will lead you up to where you have placed yourself. In imagination, I can put myself where I desire to be. I move and view the world from there. Then I return here, confident that, in a way unknown to me, this being (God, the imagination) who can do all things and knows all things, will lead me physically across a bridge of incident up to where I have placed myself. You can move in imagination to any place and any time. Dwell there (where you are going to) as though it were true, and you will have learned the secret of prayer.
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Take my message to heart and live by it. Practice the art of prayer daily, and then one day you will find the most effective prayer is: "Thank you Father." You will feel this being within you as your very self. You can speak of it as "thou" yet know it is "I." You will then have a thou/I relationship, and say to yourself (!): "Thank you, Father". If I want something, I know the desire comes from the Father, because all thought springs from Him. Having given me the urge, I thank Him for fulfilling it. Then I walk by faith, in confidence that he who gave it to me through the medium of desire will clothe it in bodily form for me to encounter in the flesh.
---Don't get in the habit of judging and criticizing, seeing only unlovely things(!)---. You have a life - live it nobly. It is so much easier to be noble, generous, loving, and kind, than to be judgmental. If others want to do so, let them. They are an aspect of yourself that you haven't overcome yet, but don't fall into that habit. Simply thank your heavenly Father over and over and over again, because in the end, when the curtain comes down on this wonderful drama, the Supreme Actor will rise from it all and you will know that you are He*
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*There are three single asterisks on this page:
1) Biblical prayer is moving there.*
2) This is the depth of the "rocket science" the universe is hinged upon and operates by: God became us, we become Him.*
3)Simply thank your heavenly Father over and over and over again, because in the end, when the curtain comes down on this wonderful drama, the Supreme Actor will rise from it all and you will know that you are He*
All these together, I believe, are what "Ahiyeh Ashur Hiyeh" actually means in Exodus 3: 14 (according to the original text in the ancient Aramaic -- please see lead paragraph, http://v-a.com/bible/, and note on Exodus 3: 14, http://www.v-a.com/bible/supporters/exodus_1-4.html, provided for your convenience below). You would never get the correct understanding from the water-down Masoretic Text, which never said "I AM THAT I AM" in the original. Because the original did not agree with the priests' theology -- they could neither understand nor do it, let alone teach it -- they changed it! The original is so rich in meaning that Alexander could not translate it into English. Ahiyeh means "Me, really Me, am really coming." 'Coming,' though, is not from one place to another, but from degree to degree, like amping up the wattage on a volume pot (switch). Ashur is the Creator God of Nineveh, from which the Aramaic language comes. It took me awhile, but I have finally resolved that Ashur is Imagination, by which God has created everything (when he "says," he imagines!). Hiyeh means His Becoming. When we -- God's Imagination -- imagine, His greater will comes forth as His becoming. 'His becoming' is also the meaning of the Hebrew Tetragrammaton: YHWH. No, it does NOT mean I AM. But when we pray imagining, and it works, we have found Him in His becoming! His becoming = our imagination, and you can bet that he speaks to us there!
**http://imagicworldview.blogspot.com/2015/12/imaginal-is-not-imaginary-it-is-medium.html.
One attempted to correct me for using the term 'imaginal' where the word 'imaginary' would do. 'Imaginary' would not do, because it means something totally different. 'Imaginary' means not real; imagined with no corollary in fact. 'Imaginal' is, in reality, the medium of fact. That which is imagined by God's intelligence has the power to become (what we call particulate): His intelligence believes that it is what ever it thinks that it is, and it becomes what it thinks. This is, I believe, Adam (the intelligence of God) having the rib (the creative power of God) to Eve (give birth to living existence) Cain (acquisition) and Abel (transitoriness). Our reality of "fact" is, in fact, imaginal; it is NOT imaginary.
Exodus (Liberation) chapter 3, from Victor Alexander's translation from the ancient Aramaic:
1. And Moses shepherded the herds of Jethro,* his king priest and he fetched him sheep for the altar, and he came to the mountain of God at Khooriv.
2. And there appeared to him the angel of the Lord through the waves of fire from inside the sun disc, and he saw that the sun disc itself did not burn up.
3. And Moses said, "Let me see, this must be indeed a great vision, that is why the disc is not burning up."
4. And the Lord saw that he was approaching to look closer, and so God called him from inside the disc, and He said, "Moses," and [Moses] said, "Behold, it is I."
5. And He said to him, "Do not come near, take off your sandals, because the land that you stand on is holy ground."
6. And He said, "I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob." And Moses hid himself from the faces* that he saw, because he was afraid to look at God.
7. And the Lord said, "I have indeed seen* the slavery of my people in Egypt, and I have heard the agonies of their enslavement, because I know what ails them.
8. "And I have come down to deliver them from the hand of the Egyptians and to take them up from this land to an expansive and good land, to a land that flows with milk and honey, to the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites.
9. "And now, behold, the agony of the Children of Israel has reached me* and I can also see the persecution by which the Egyptians oppress them.
10. "Now come, I will send you to the Pharaoh, and take my people, the Children of Israel, out of Egypt."
11. And Moses said to God, "Who am I to go to the Pharaoh and bring out the Children of Israel out of Egypt?"
12. And God said to him, "I will be with you and this is the sign that I am sending you, when you conduct the exodus of the nation from Egypt, you shall work here before God on this mountain."
13. And Moses said to God, "Behold, as I go to the Children of Israel and say to them, 'the Lord God of your ancestors has sent me over to you," and they tell me, 'what is His name?' what shall I say to them?"
14. And God said to Moses, "Ahiyeh-Ashur-hiyeh,"* and He said, "this is what you will say to the Children of Israel, "Ahiyeh has sent me over to you."
15. And again God said to Moses, "This is what you shall tell the Children of Israel, that the Lord God of your ancestors, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, the God of Jacob, sent me over to you -- this is His name to the end of the universe and this is how you shall commemorate me from this century to the end of all the centuries,
16. "Go and gather all the elders of the Children of Israel and say to them that the Lord God of your ancestors has revealed this to me, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, so as to say this to you, that you shall memorialize this memorial, of all that He has done for you in Egypt.
17. "And you shall tell them that He brought you out of the enslavement of the Egyptians to the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites, to the land that flows with milk and honey.
18. "And I shall make them heed your voice, and you and the elders of the House of Israel shall enter into the presence of the king of Egypt and you shall say to him, 'The Lord God of the Hebrews has revealed this to us now that we must go and spend three days in the wilderness and make a sacrifice to our Lord God.'
19. "And I know the king of Egypt will not allow you to go, and it is not in his power to do so.*
20. "And I shall extend my hand and strike the Egyptians and I shall perform wonders among them and then I shall send you [all out.]
21. "And I shall give the nation to be perceived kindly in the eyes of the Egyptians, so that when you go, you do not go empty-handed.*
22. "The wife shall ask her neighbor, and the residents of her house for gold plates and silver plates and clothing, so that you may cloth your sons and your daughters, and the Egyptians shall allow it."
*3:6 Lit. Ar. idiom retained: "Visions" or manifestations.
*3:7 Lit. Ar. idiomatic figure of speech: "Seeingly have seen."
*3:9 Lit. Ar. id.: "Entered upon me."
*3:14 Lit. Aramaic: (1) "Ahiyeh": "the One Who Comes in His Coming," the absolute sense of "the One Who Comes." (2) "Ashur": "the Beginning Spark that kindles the Fire" or "the Light." (3) "Hiyeh": "His Coming." (4) "Ahiyeh" and "hiyeh" are related forms of the same word. They mean more than "the Coming." They signify also the "Eternal Presence," "the Ever-Present," and the "Never Ceasing Intent of the Comer to Come." (5) In the same way, "Ashur" signifies "the Uncreated Creator who Creates Everything from Nothing." (6) Also, "Ashur" signifies: "Above-the-Flames."
*3:19 Lit. Ar. idiomatic expression: "It was not in his clutching hand."
*3:21 Lit. Ar. id.: "Bare."
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